The president, who enjoys widespread popularity in India, was greeted by Prime Minister Narendra Modi with a bear hug in Washington last June, and the two leaders have frequently discussed greater military cooperation and ramping up trade. Mr. Trump has also taken a harder line toward Pakistan ...

"Towards prosperity through greater connectivity”. His Excellency Dr. Hassan Rouhani, President of the Islamic Republic of Iran, paid his first State Visit to India at the invitation of Prime Minister of the Republic of India, Shri Narendra Modi, from 15-17 February 2018. During the visit, Dr Hassan Rouhani, ...

Over the last four decades, India's top 1% earners' share of the country's income rose from roughly 7% to 22%, as of 2014. Meanwhile, the income share of the bottom 50% earners declined from roughly 23% in the early 1980s to 15% in 2014. That's according to 2018 World Inequality Report, which ...

In an illustration on Instagram, a young woman perched on the arm of a bench can be seen letting out a fart. The Indian artist behind the sketch, Kaviya Ilango, speaks to the BBC's Krutika Pathi about the "dirty taboos" that inspire her. "People generally advise you not to air your dirty laundry in public, but I ...

The two countries trade meagerly, exchanging around $8billion of goods per year, and Trudeau has not been to India since he took office despite the 1.4million Indians who live in Canada. On Saturday night, he started by bowing his head and clasping his hands in respect while disembarking his aircraft ...

By Aditya Kalra and Rajendra Jadhav. NEW DELHI/MUMBAI (Reuters) - India's federal police detained two employees of Punjab National Bank , the state-run lender that says it has been the victim of a $1.77 billion fraud, in the first arrests in a fast-widening probe into the country's biggest-ever bank ...

NEW DELHI • India's federal police arrested two employees at Punjab National Bank (PNB) believed to be at the centre of a staggering US$1.77 billion (S$2.3 billion) fraud, a police source said yesterday, in the first arrests so far in the country's biggest-ever bank scam. Friday's arrests came amid an ...

India and Iran have agreed to cooperate in a port project in Iran, while China presses ahead with port development in India's neighbors. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi met with visiting Iranian President Hassan Rouhani in New Delhi on Saturday. The 2 leaders agreed on the project to expand ...

In a major diplomatic strike, India has landed a deal with Iran that will allow it operational rights in Shahid Beheshti port of Chabahar. A source told Mail Today that this is of "huge strategic significance to India as this arrangement means not only taking care of the operations but also having our own ...

In April through January, the first 10 months of this fiscal year, India imported about 17 percent less Iranian oil at about 442,800 bpd. Supplies from Iran were down as state refiners, which account for about two-third of India's nearly 5 million barrels per day (bpd) demand, curbed imports in protest at ...

The Australia cricket team is scheduled to tour India in February 2019 to play five One Day Internationals (ODIs) and two Twenty20 International (T20I) matches. References[edit]. Jump up ^ "Future Tours Programme" (PDF). International Cricket Council. Retrieved 11 December 2017. Jump up ^ "India ...

Even before I could recover from this excoriating email, my own father forwarded me an article about India's top public intellectuals, with a brief covering note shaming me: “As your father, it pains me to observe that not only have you still not made it to the list of India's top five public intellectuals, you did ...

National security advisers of India and Canada met here this week, ahead of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's seven-day visit to India from Saturday which is aimed at further boosting strategic ties with a focus on defence and counter-terror cooperation. The two NSAs prepared the ground for ...

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani is on a visit to India this week, repaying a trip by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Tehran in 2016. Before leaving Tehran, Rouhani said relations between the two nations were historical and deep-rooted, and in his first day in India -- in the city of Hyderabad -- on ...

India's Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has made first arrests in the state-run Punjab National Bank scam that allegedly involved billionaire jeweler Nirav Modi obtaining fake documents for overseas loans. Among those arrested were two employees at Punjab National Bank believed to be at the ...

The arrests, late on Friday, came two days after India's second-largest state-run lender said it had been hit by massive fraud, sending its share price tumbling. The accusations against the two relatively junior PNB officials were detailed in the lender's disclosure, and also contained in a preliminary police ...

Gokulnath Shetty and Manoj Kharat are suspected of steering fraudulent loans to companies linked to billionaire jeweler Nirav Modi and entities tied to jewelry retailer Gitanjali, which is led by Modi's uncle, Mehul Choksi. India's Income Tax department warned in an internal note seen by Reuters that ...

Since then, the loans and guarantees would have increased over the past year and the total “hit” to Indian banks “may well exceed” $3 billion, according to an internal note prepared by the tax authority on its preliminary investigation into India's biggest bank fraud case. According to a complaint by PNB, ...